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PETA Names Fable II Most Animal-Friendly Video Game

Lionhead's role-playing game has a vegan-friendly message, if you don't embrace your evil side, that is.

With more than 2 million members, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, but apparently they're also gamers. In the organization's sixth annual Proggy Awards, the organization recognized Lionhead Studios' Fable II as the Most Animal-Friendly Video Game.

According to PETA:

"Created by Microsoft Game Studios, Fable 2 is a vegetarian's dream come true. Why? In this virtual fight between good and evil, characters powered by tofu are just as powerful as their meat-eating counterparts—and are more fit and attractive to boot. Featuring a strong pro-vegetarian theme, eating a plant-based diet helps you rack up "purity" points, whereas eating meat makes your character fat and evil. A fun and innovative game, it's also an effective tool that teaches gamers the real-life benefits of a vegetarian diet."

Fable II's food system does reward a player with purity for sticking to a vegetarian diet, but other rewards await those who don't mind putting some meat in their diet. Of particular note is the Temple of Shadows mission where one can gain initiation into the ranks of evil by eating five live baby chicks.